Exactly the Pilot basically became SHAWD light, I do not believe it has the ability to distribute torque side to side over the rear axle but the description of Passport is SHAWD. Acura has now lost that advantage over Honda, another reason why the next generation products need to have a special power/drivetrain or else it's just Honda+ all over again.

Exactly the Pilot basically became SHAWD light, I do not believe it has the ability to distribute torque side to side over the rear axle but the description of Passport is SHAWD. Acura has now lost that advantage over Honda, another reason why the next generation products need to have a special power/drivetrain or else it's just Honda+ all over again.

It has the ability to fully vary the torque across the rear axle just like SH-AWD. The Ridgeline has it as well.

iVTM-4 and the current version of SH-AWD use virtually the same hardware. The software allows the iVTM-4 system to send power to the outer wheel for torque vectoring, but less aggressively than SH-AWD. The older VTM-4 system's hardware could handle torque vectoring as well, but the function was never implemented in software.

I think the SHAWD can over-accelerate the outside tire in spirited driving.

WillMax wrote:iVTM-4 and the current version of SH-AWD use virtually the same hardware. The software allows the iVTM-4 system to send power to the outer wheel for torque vectoring, but less aggressively than SH-AWD. The older VTM-4 system's hardware could handle torque vectoring as well, but the function was never implemented in software.